Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases y Shüné Oliver, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
The South African Malaria Control Programme is one of the few on the continent that is entirely funded by government. The stable source of funding has allowed for steady malaria control interventions.
Members of the LGBT community attending the annual Gay Pride march in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2017.
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The author set out to understand how the faith of displaced LGBT people in South Africa has evolved over time, and how religion has shaped their experiences of displacement.
If South Africa wants to improve air quality and meet climate change goals, it needs to move away from coal.
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To improve air quality, a combination of efforts is needed including reducing Eskom’s emissions, investing in cleaner sources of energy, and reducing emissions.
A simplistic ‘all livestock are bad’ narrative is promoted by campaigners, celebrities, philanthropists and policymakers alike. A much more sophisticated debate is needed.
The creation of a Research Excellence Barometer for Africa would contribute to retaining talent and expertise and ensure that Africans benefited from their own research efforts.
Mobile phones help internally displaced people in Nigeria to function better.
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Mobile phones are enhancing the lives of internally displaced people in Nigeria.
A nurse moves scrap from a damaged part of the Wukro General Hospital which was shelled, in Wukro, north of Mekele, on February 28, 2021.
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A consequence of a warming world is prolonged dry spells and periods of drought that can lead to infectious diseases like cholera.
An officer of the National Integrated Identity Management system collects data for Mr Charles Chepkwony’s digital ID in 2019 in Baringo, Kenya.
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Progress against tuberculosis has long been inadequate to reach the target of elimination by 2030. But before the COVID-19 pandemic the world was making steady progress in diagnosing and treating TB.
Polly Ericksen, International Livestock Research Institute y Laura Cramer, International Livestock Research Institute
African livestock keepers need help: without proactive interventions, increasing temperatures will reduce meat and milk production.
BioNTech Marburg is one of the largest manufacturing facilities producing mRNA vaccines in the world.
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand